Neurologic disease in women
By: edited by Peter W. Kaplan.
Contributors: Kaplan, Peter W., 1951-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Demos Medical Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Nervous system -- Diseases.; Women -- Diseases.; Sex factors in disease.; Nervous System Diseases.; Sex Factors.; Women's Health.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Gender differences in diseases of the nervous system / Joan C. Amatniek, Lauren C. Frey and W. Allen Hauser; value: Sex differences in regional brain structure and function / Susan M. Resnick; value: Women's lives and their experiences with health care / Aileen MacLaren and Nancy Fugate Woods; value: Drug treatments and trials in women / Stephen D. Silberstein; value: Reproductive and metabolic disorders with AED use / Martha Morrell; value: Effect of ovarian hormones on the nervous system / Pavel Klein and Donald L. Schomer; value: Genetic neurologic disorders in females / Orest Hurko; value: Women, law, and neurologic disease / H. Richard Beresford; value: Neurologic disease in girls / S. Lane Rutledge and Holly Mussell; value: Menstruation and pregnancy: interactions with neurologic disease / James O. Donaldson III; value: Obstetric issues in women with neurologic diseases / Errol R. Norwitz and John T. Repke; value: The menopausal transition: changing physiology, symptoms, and hormone therapy / Nancy Fugate Woods; value: Frailty in elderly women / E. Jeffrey Metter; value: Migraine / Ramesh Khurana; value: Seizures and epilepsy in women / Martha Morrell; value: Eclampsia / Peter W. Kaplan; value: Cerebrovascular disease in women / Rafael S. Llinas and Carla J. Weisman; value: Multiple sclerosis / P. K. Coyle and Mustafa Hammad; value: Optic neuritis / Neil R. Miller; value: Peripheral nerve disease in women / Alan R. Moore, E. Wayne Massey and Janice M. Massey; value: Muscle disease in women / James M. Gilchrist; value: Neurologic presentations of autoimmune disorders in women / Michelle Petri; value: Gender differences in movement disorders / Yvette M. Bordelon and Stanley Fahn; value: Chorea gravidarum / Gretchen L. Birbeck; value: Giant cell arteritis / David B. Hellmann; value: The neurologic basis of common pelvic floor disorders / Linda Brubaker and J. Thomas Benson; value: Infections of the nervous system in women / David N. Irani; value: Neuro-oncological diseases in women / Alessandro Olivi and John J. Laterra; value: Pseudomotor cerebri / Neil R. Miller; value: Alzheimer disease in women / Julene K. Johnson and Kristine Yaffe; value: Psychiatric disorders in women / Angela S. Guarda and Karen L. Swartz; value: Nonepileptic, psychogenic, and hysterical seizures / Allan Krumholz and Tricia Ting.